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...Many a Brazilian placed side by side last week pictures of Allan Hoover, 23, and Fernando Prestes, 22 . These smart sons are as typical of their respective peoples as their able fathers. Son Allan, graduate of Stanford University, is taking the course at Harvard Business School, must spend this summer in the employ of a real business (American Radiator Co.) to see such things as budgeting and accounting in practical operation. Son Fernando, graduate of the University of Brazil, spent his college vacations mostly in Europe, pleasure bent. At home he is rated an excellent horseman, tennis player, yachtsman, ladies...
...Allan called on Son Fernando at the Meyer mansion. They chatted through an interpreter. Then son Fernando flew with a Navy pilot to Annapolis (his father following by motor...
Into Baltimore's Wyman Park, on a dark night, up to the statue of Edgar Allan Poe stole Edmond Fontaine, Poe reverer. With flashlight he scanned the stone-wrought verse of "The Raven": "Dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before." The "s" in "mortals" offended Mr. Fontaine. He hated its sibilance, knew that there was no "s" in Poe's original version. So Mr. Fontaine determinedly edited out the "s" with a chisel. A policeman arrested him for defacing the public monument...
...disproportionate to its registration (985). Fourteen months ago its president, William Westley Guth, died. Nine months later acting President Hans Froelicher died. Then Dean Dorothy Stimson, cousin of Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, became acting president (TIME, Feb. 3). Last week Goucher acquired a full-fledged president, David Allan Robertson, A. B., longtime (1904-23) member of the University of Chicago's English faculty...
...professor of economics at the University of Richmond, has been State Historian of Virginia since 1927. Rutherford B. Hayes is the first of a series on political leaders, from the time of Andrew Johnson to Herbert Hoover, which Publishers Dodd, Mead will issue, under the editorship of youthful Historian Allan Nevins. Other books by Biographer Eckenrode: History of Virginia During the Reconstruction. Life of Nathan B. Forrest, Jefferson Davis, President of the South...